Association of the oulémas Moslem Algerian

The Association of the oulémas Moslem Algerian is always existing and very important in the life religious Politique and of the Algérie. This association strongly fought against the French Colonisation in Algérie. On the religious level, they were inspired especially by Mohammed Abdou and of its disciple Rachid Rida, who recommended the return to the religious precepts of the Théologien S Syrian of the 14th century. On the political plan they were influenced by the emir Chekib Arslan, and the Tunisian Néo-Destour . The watchword of the movement was “the Arab is my language, Algeria is my country, Islam is my religion. ”

Creation of association

Association east creates the May 5th 1931. It grouped all the Ouléma S of Algeria, even maraboutic thus which can leave Islam, but the real influence belongs to the scientists trained in the countries of the the Middle East and to Tunis. The group became influential with the appearance of its true chief, the Sheik Abdelhamid Ben Badis of Constantine. Ben Badis is accompanied by other sheiks, the sheik El-Okbi who spent twenty-five years to the Hedjaz, with Médine and Mecque and the sheik Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi. The sheik Bachir spent several years in Egypt and Syria.

Program oulémas

Their program is at the same time monk and cultural. From the religious point of view, they wanted to bring back the Algerian Islam to its original purity, by rejecting the rites malékites while fighting against the superstitions and fetishism. To the cultural point of view, they were devoted to restore the Islamic community, by bringing closer sunnites and Shiite on the truth Sunnite, Arabic-speaking people and berbérophones, to create only one block of Algerian Moslems.

Education

They exempted an education with the Algerian children, their teaching method is conceived, according to Charles-Andre Julien, according to the gun means-Eastern and panarabe. They exempted courses of teaching of the Arab Langue, courses of popularization of the Algerian national history, religion, grammar, mathematics, etc the students were to assimilate the critical spirit of contemporary science so that they can according to Ben Badis to assimilate all the modernism and all the culture of our time by means of the Arab language. Most important religious school creates, was that of Constantine, created under the auspices of Ben Badis, this school accepted approximately three hundred children. In the schools of the big cities, oulémas given courses of Theology, Philosophy, Right, Literature and history. The supreme goal was to be of creates with Algiers a large university, on the model of the Zitouna of Tunis, which would be a center of radiation of the Arab culture.

Policy

On the political plan, the oulémas represent the arabo-Islamic tendency in the Algerian national movement of which it constitutes one of the main components. The oulémas left in crusade against the marabout S and the zaouïas. The movement practiced little alliance with the Algerian political parties, and as for the Destour and the Moroccan Action, they never failed to point out the individuality of Algeria which one cannot confuse with France. Measurements of Assimilation S are rejected by the oulémas, Ben Badis expressed his vision of the Algerian nation in 1931,

We sought in the history and in the present and we noted that the Moslem Algerian nation was formed and exists, as created all the nations of the ground. This nation has its history illustrated by more the important facts; it has its religious and linguistic unit; it has its culture, its traditions and its characteristics, good or bad as it is the case of any nation on ground. We say then that this Algerian nation is not France, cannot be France and does not want to be France. It is impossible that it is France, even if it wants the assimilation. It has its given territory which is Algeria with its limits actuelles.

Relations with France

The oulémas took an increasingly important place in the political life and Algerian nun, which worried at the most point the French authorities. Their free teaching sapped that of the madrasas and principal the Mosquée S directed by professors recruited by the ministry for the indigenous businesses. Their religious teaching threatened the moqaddems of the brotherhoods soufies, the sheiks of the maraboutic zaouïas and more generally the civils servant of the worship and justice (Imam S, Mufti S and Cadi S).

To put an end to all that, the government decides in 1930 to institute in each department, of the advisory committees of the worship. The circular Michel orders with the local authorities to very supervise close the communist and the oulémas. By this circular, the oulémas cannot preach any more in the mosques, but this will not decrease of anything prestige oulémas. This prohibition of sermon was addressed especially to the sheik El-Okbi who profited from a great prestige. To put an end to the activities of the sheik El-Okbi, the police force decides to make assassinate the mufti malékite of Algiers, Bendali Mahmoud, by one taken again of justice. Akache ensures to have received hands even of El-Okbi the knife and 30.000 Francs. This police machination makes it possible the police force to put under stop the sheik, but Akache reconsiders its charges quickly what makes it possible El-Okbi to find its Liberté. Thanks to this incident, the administration is discredited by the Moslems, and the sheik leaves prison in Martyr of the French authorities.

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